I think people gain little a rationality when money is involved. Maybe
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I used to be kind of interested in participatory economics ("parecon") and one of the dudes into the concept said that with modern computers and an abundant economy planning could be "as simple as filling out a census-like ranked-choice survey of the products you need every year"
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And he gave an example of such a survey that was "only" a couple pages long, where you had to put a number beside various broad categories of consumer goods to vote whether the country as a whole needs more clothes next year than last year vs needing more baked goods etc
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Meh, I think it's solvable to a much better level of approximation than before and to a level of surveillance (which is kind of a loaded word) that is acceptable to most people. And by "modern computers" I mean. We have fucking computers, period.
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I think the problem is more political than computational. Every inefficiency has the potential to gain a constituency that will defend it, to eliminate them you need a mechanism that is outside the political system.
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